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Seeing Fictions in Film$
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George M. Wilson

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199594894

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594894.001.0001

General Introduction

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(p. 2 ) (p. 3 ) General Introduction
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Seeing Fictions in Film
Author(s):

George M. Wilson

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594894.003.0001

This chapter introduces the key philosophical issues of the book e.g., imagined seeing, narration, face-to-face seeing, and mediated seeing. There is a set of puzzles, originally identified by Bernard Williams, about what it is for an audience to see a fiction in a movie or play from a point of view. These issues are identified, and it is explained how these issues have a bearing on the theory of narrative when that theory is applied to film.

Keywords:   imagined seeing, narration, narrative, Bernard Williams, face-to-face seeing, mediated seeing, point of view

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